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The Rally of Left Republicans (''Rassemblement des gauches républicaines'' or RGR) was an electoral alliance during the French Fourth Republic composed of the Radical Party, the Independent Radicals, the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR) and several conservative groups. Headed by Jean-Paul David, founder of the anti-Communist movement ''Paix et Liberté'' (Peace and Freedom), it was in fact a right-of-center conservative coalition, which presented candidates to the June 1946, November 1946, and 1951 legislative elections. Despite its name, the coalition was on the right wing of French politics; for a long time, the French republican right has refused to call itself "right" since the right-wing in France has historically been associated with monarchism (this practice is known as ''sinistrisme''). It was subsided by French employers, who saw in it the best defense against Communism and the defender of economic liberalism, in a context marked by various nationalizations supported by the French Communist Party (PCF), the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and the Gaullist movement. Employers conceived the RGR as such until at least the 1951 creation of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP) gathering independent conservative deputies. During the 1956 legislative campaign, it became a political party led by Edgar Faure and Radicals who refused to join the Republican Front coalition. == Composition of the coalition == The RGR was largely composed of the Radical-Socialist Party, which had governed France during most of the Third Republic, and of the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (''Union démocratique et socialiste de la Résistance''), which included René Pleven and François Mitterrand. The UDSR was a founding member of the Liberal International in 1947. Others parties included: *Republican Social Party of French Reconciliation (''Parti républicain social de la réconciliation française''), founded by former members of Colonel de la Rocque's Parti Social Français (PSF) *Democratic Republican Alliance (''Alliance Démocratique''), main right-wing party during the interwar period *Democratic Socialist Party (''Parti socialiste démocratique'') of Paul Faure, which gathered former SFIO members excluded from that party because of their Collaborationism *Independent Radicals (''Radicaux indépendants''), radicals refusing the Radical-Socialist Party alliance with the left-wing during the Cartel des gauches, issued from a scission in 1928; the group is reconstituted at the Liberation by the mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin *Republican-Socialist Party (''Parti républicain-socialiste'') created by independent socialists who had refused the unification of the socialist movement in 1905 under the SFIO, which was, like the Independent Radicals, almost an empty shell by then. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rally of Left Republicans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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